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u/Spare-Shirt24 12h ago
I canceled last year.
I'm done with streaming. I'm back to physical media.
Go to your library. They have more than books to check out.
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u/SixdaywarOnSnapchat 12h ago
i cancelled everything and assumed i would start pirating, but what's ended up happening instead is that i just watch nothing.
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u/H_J_Rose 12h ago
Tbh that’s way better than giving any of them your money.
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u/Putrid-VII 10h ago
...who gets the money from the pirating though?
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u/brightfutureman 11h ago
Did the very same thing already and never look back! More free time and money. Besides, there are not too much to watch at the first place to pay such an amount to some streaming company. Shitty content mostly or old that you watched few times. What’s the reason?! And they ruined old good movie/series (45m, 22 per season) concept demand and just copy/paste shitty series with the story repeating like for imbeciles.
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u/Due_Profession3023 12h ago
i watch a ton of youtube on my 85” lol
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u/TESTINGSTUFFPL 10h ago
*You watch a ton of unskippable ads on your 85"
Seriously fuck Google for the way they ruined YouTube.
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u/SwimmingCommon 9h ago
Pulled the trigger on my own media seev. Currently 20tbs.
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u/poodlevutt 11h ago
I personally have a plex server that has around 25tb of data on it...movies, TV shows, concerts....I also use keepstreams that allows me to rip/download stuff off of all of the streaming sites, and then I torrent whatever I cant find there. All my friends use it and because I have so much content on there they've all canceled their streaming services in favor of my free stuff.
I just love helping people save money.
"If buying isnt owning, then pirating isnt stealing."
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u/Any-Mammoth-3251 8h ago
For noobs like myself, do you have some sort of self starter guide you would recommend for setting something like this up? I have cancelled everything except Netflix (that's next if they introduce ads where I am) and torrent some things but would like to set up my own library. I was thinking of going back to burning CDs but I don't even think my laptop supports those anymore.
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u/SnarkyAnxiety 8h ago
Fun fact. If you have a library card there is an excellent chance your local library is part of the Kanopy streaming platform. This will allow you to "check out" thirty or more movies, TV series, etc a month via your library card
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u/Ok_Zookeepergame5141 12h ago
I'm going to try this. Ngl... it will be like going cold turkey from heroin.
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u/Spare-Shirt24 12h ago
It's definitely different.
I've also picked up other ways to entertain myself in the evenings. I'm learning a new language, picked up watercolor painting, read more, etc.
When I want to zone out and watch something, I pop in a DVD, or check one out from the library.
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u/AppropriateDinner528 12h ago
I finally discovered DVD's from the library. It's like taking a trip back in time to Blockbuster.
It is a whole different experience when you plan your viewing ahead. No more endless doom scrolling trying to find something to watch. We watch what we check out and that's the end of it.
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u/Far-Drama3779 12h ago
Honestly thats something people fail to realize, it's a great idea, thank you for the reminder
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u/JROCC_CA 12h ago
I love this idea! I have a whole bookshelf, full of DVDs and Blu-rays. I never gave up on physical media. I still look for used DVDs that I don’t own.
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u/InterestingLion6041 12h ago
Same. My husband and I are closing in on 50 so we have a ton of DVDs from back in the day when that was the way you watched new movies outside of going to the theater. Streaming was cool af when it first came around ngl and we got rid of cable to move to streaming. But, like with anything in this capitalistic hellscape, media companies wanting to extract every $ they can from us, ruined it. Now it's like buying a la carte cable. $30 for this platform, $25 for this other one... it's now more expensive to have all of the streaming platforms than it is to have cable again. I have to sit down and figure out which ones I pay for, which ones my husband pays for, and which my daughter pays for and either cancel them all or keep only the ones we use regularly. I don't think our Disney+ subscription is being used much anymore. My daughter watched all she wanted to watch and now I think I'm just paying for a platform no one watches. I'm so sick of this shit... the people with the most are trying to extract every cent they can from people with the least. In every aspect of our lives.
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u/pit-of-despair 11h ago
Yeah, I’m with you about the physical media thing. A few years ago the last video store in my town went out of business and I scored big time on new and used videos for cheap. I had a lot even before that.
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u/QueefTamer 11h ago edited 11h ago
Yes. Going to the library is fun. My gf gets her book and I get the movies. I got a bluray player for a good deal. They also rent bluray players for free. They have a lot of games and they allow you to rent it for a full month at our place.
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u/chriseldonhelm 10h ago
My wife and I have done the same. There is a used electronic store that sells dvds and bluerays cheap. We are building are collection up.
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u/PauI_MuadDib 11h ago
You can stream through your library too. My library offers Binge Passes through Hoopla and you get free access to certain subscription services for, I think a week. My partner watches Hallmark+ that way 😂
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u/ResidentSpecial3468 12h ago
Cancel it. Companies will keep getting away with this shit if people keep paying for it
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u/Cash_Visible 8h ago
That’s the problem. People bitch and moan but subscriber growth continues to climb
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u/BisonThunderclap 10h ago
This is Disney's very public plan. Low price to entice consumers into buying it and then slow step up to get past the loss, to break even and then profit.
The problem is that they have by far the best catalog out there, especially when you get one of the bundles.
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u/Urdnought 7h ago
This. They jacked up price of Gamepass and everyone canceled and they had to walk back the price hike
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u/GenericUsername532 6h ago
Cancel your subscriptions. You're complicit in them raising prices on DIGITAL goods for no reason other than their own greed if you keep your subscription. Trust me that your child doesn't need to watch Moana for the 725th time, and if they do then just buy the damn bluray for less than your Disney+ monthly charge would have been to begin with
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u/PhotoFenix 12h ago
Laughs in 35 Tb of plex
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u/Conscious-Record2655 12h ago
What's your HDD backup system like? Sounds expensive.
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u/BigGayGinger4 12h ago
If a single streaming service is $260 per year, and you would need three or four of them to consume everything that you want to watch....
Then a couple new HDDs per year for redundancies and backups are still way cheaper.
These corps are doing this shit to themselves. Your cute teleplays are not worth giant chunks of our meager paychecks.
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u/BigUziNoVertt 10h ago
Backups? I don’t have backups because I can just redownload media
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u/R0ad13 12h ago
3x16tb in raidz1 here, so 30ish tb useful. Drives are over 5 years old now. Raid is my backup for media, and if i lose it all, who cares, I can download it again.
The craziest thing is that I could sell these drives now, for the same price I bought them new!
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u/poodlevutt 11h ago
Bro, there is absolutely zero chance that if I lost my almost 30tb of content id go back and redo everything. Thats more or less 2.5 years of work finding, downloading, and tweaking things.
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u/BrettV79 12h ago
35tb? damn! you go hard! I'm over here with 0GB just scrolling through stremio!
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u/razzemmatazz 12h ago
giggles in 54TB Jellyfin
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u/PixalatedConspiracy 12h ago
lol Jellyfin is much more superior to plex ifykyk
I don’t have 54tb but up there lol
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u/makemeking706 12h ago
Not the same full belly laugh it used to be given Plex's recent dbaggery, but still laughing.
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u/Ok-Classroom5548 12h ago
I love how when the internet goes out I just keep watching my stories…and Plex has a feature where you can add commercials from any era if you miss them.
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u/PunchDrunkPrincess 12h ago
Theoretically, what would you charge to fill up a couple external harddrives 🤔 I used to have 5TB but I didn't back it up and lost everything. I miss it dearly but I am technologically illiterate and no longer have access to my plug.
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u/AppropriateDinner528 12h ago
I remember having 10 4TB in my array thinking I will never need to buy another hard drive again. Oh how wrong I was. Now I need to find 32TB drives that aren't over $1,000 each.
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u/Kraken477 11h ago
I almost switched to jellyfin when they announced the new lifetime membership price. I got in on the $2.99 a month deal and im sticking with it. Stream from mobile to any TV is a plus. I just need storage to drop back down in price dammit!
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u/SoggyLow4805 12h ago
i think its time for everyone to buy a blu ray player lol
this is beyond absurd
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u/Jumoke1331 7h ago
It shouldn't be legal to increase the price automatically on a monthly subscription like this. You used to be able to get grandfathered into things...
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u/dreamkruiser 12h ago
Does anyone know why? Shouldn't these clowns need to justify rate increases? They ride on the back of shared fiber networks, nothing about their business justifies more increases.
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u/theMeatman7 12h ago
The justification is that you still have more money to take.
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u/thanatoswaits 5h ago
Honestly, this is really it. I'm assuming its the same as what they did to Disneyland - just keep raising the price as long as people keep coming.
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u/dylan2451 11h ago
I mean CEO’s have a fiduciary duty to make investors more money each year. So that’s all the justification they need. Limitless growth and all. Sucks.
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u/BlackThundaCat 11h ago
Yeah…why does their fiduciary duty seem to always outweigh every other duty out there?! Seems like it would be a simple change to make a law that prioritizes something else besides the shareholders.
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u/Fardding_n_Shidding 10h ago
Because regulating things and keeping people safe and happy is commie propaganda
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u/Robot_Gandhi_ 12h ago
Because they can and enough people will still be willing to pay those abhorrent prices. As soon as their subscriptions dip, they'll change course.
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u/PositiveCoyote100 10h ago
People are willing to pay for it. That's the only justification they need.
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u/Lordofthereef 11h ago
No business has ever needed to justify a price hike. It's on the consumer to decide whether the service at a higher cost continues to be worth it to them.
I say pirate it all.
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u/dontonefingerme 12h ago
Cancel your subscriptions! We used to get 130+ channels for less than $100 bucks. Basic cable was like $40 bucks! Now you get 4-5 streaming services with rotating seasons of the same crap for $100/month. Just stop paying for this shit. You have a choice. I cancelled nearly all of our streaming in November of last year and it felt great TBH.
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u/Antique-Coach-214 11h ago
Or you can get 130+ channels, and 8 cable subscription services for 100+ sales tax.
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u/CrashTestPhoto 11h ago
Or you could connect a Raspberry Pi to your TV, pay $30/y for a good quality VPN and then pirate everything.
Fuck the greedy cunts at this point
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u/occaisionallyimqwert 8h ago
My favorite thing ever is when people complain about this sort of thing, but then continue to pay for the exact same service, now more expensive. It’s you man, it’s your fault they keep doing this. Because you keep paying for it.
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u/egnards 12h ago
I cancelled Netflix a month ago, something I've been subscribing to since 2008 - The only reason I haven't cancelled Disney/Hulu is because I'm still on a much older Verizon plan that they keep trying to get me to "upgrade" [to a worse plan for more money] that pays for the bundle for me. I'll use the app for free, and would pay for it at a reasonable cost, but I'm not paying those prices.
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u/TinyAdeptness5166 12h ago
I'm in a similar situation, I get the low tier of HBO Max for free with my phone plan, it's not great but sometimes more convenient
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u/TunaOnWytNoCrust 3h ago
What do you mean not again?? It's going to be again and again and again forever.
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u/quikmantx 12h ago
I cut Netflix for the first time since 2018 2 weeks ago. I don't pay for Disney+ but I do pay for Hulu.
When Hulu gets swallowed into Disney+, I'll probably cut it too. I hate ads and I expect a big price increase as a result of them putting the two together.
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u/MadTube 11h ago
Been subscribed to Disney+ since its inception. Last year, I barely squeaked by on the price hike. My renewal was just before the big jump. So my subscription went from $70 (last year) to $190 (this year).
Absolutely the fuck not. Glad I tweaked my Jellyfin.
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u/Not_Allowed_to_Die 12h ago
If you are paying full price for Hulu, cancel it right now, and they will offer you $4.99 a month to stay. Never pay full price.
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u/Stillburgh 11h ago
It’s going to happen eventually too. Bc Hulu is the reason alot of people even buy the Disney plus bundle. Once they realize this they’re going to make Hulu only obtainable with Disney Plus and have it be a sub app within Disney plus
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u/uwunuzzlesch 12h ago
I don't think they care bc if you pay for Disney you get all of Disney and Hulu
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u/NotSoSecretVillain 10h ago
The price is now 21.99 for disney+hulu (no ads) or 21.49 for just hulu (no ads). I just canceled.
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u/WillowPtar_Migan 10h ago
I gave up on em a long time ago. If anyone wants to learn the basics of getting this shit for free, let me know.
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u/thecamino 12h ago
Raising prices is the only way they can increase stock price anymore. They quit doing anything that would net more subscriptions long ago.
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u/sexwiththebabysitter 12h ago
I have the Disney credit card so was given the opportunity to lock down for 3 years at like $7 a month before it was released. After three years it just kept going up. Canceled a couple years ago when I got an email about a price increase. Wife and kids didn’t even notice I canceled for months
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u/JROCC_CA 12h ago
You are lucky with that 3 year deal. Nice! 👍. I will just cancel and hope no one asks lmao.
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u/Jorwen 9h ago edited 9h ago
I was fine when streaming for a whole family was around 10 bucks. I could stop pirating for little money, and I didn’t have to watch ads like on TV. Now those greedy fuckers all want 20+ bucks, track your logins so you’re forced to upgrade to a more expensive plan for multiple people, produce mostly trash, and have introduced ads into the basic subscription tiers. They’re becoming unpleasant and inconvenient for the user overall which was the ONLY reason so many people switchted to them in the first place. I guess I’m back to sailing the seven seas.
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u/ConfessorKahlan 7h ago
the whole arc of streaming platforms really proved the point gabe (and many others) have made. piracy is a service issue. if your services is good, affordable, and available, people will pay for it. and we did, when it was good and affordable.
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u/Sir_Delarzal 12h ago
That's crazy pricing They might be doing this to try and find the limit that people will allow passively
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u/More_Lavishness8127 12h ago
I cancelled two price increases ago and have been pirating since.
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u/thgof2pac 10h ago
Why is physical media still around: this. I dont pay for any of them anymore. All streaming has been dropped.
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u/toes111 9h ago
Sign up on Black Friday, we have it for $3.99 per month for a year. I have 2 accounts and just switch to the other one every year to get the deal every time 🤷🏼♂️
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u/SugarHooves I'm sorry, what?! 8h ago
This is what I do, too. Last year I also signed up for HBO for $1.99 a month for a year.
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u/Forsaken-Register512 12h ago
Yar har matey these blasted companies be shivering me timbers
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u/SwordofNoon 10h ago
When I signed up for Disney it was like 7 dollars a month 💀
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u/oddinsomniakk 12h ago
secondhand physical media and piracy. disney chose to never get a dime out of me again and i’ll watch whatever the fuck i want 🖕
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u/Gohardgrandpa 12h ago
I’m cancelling everything this year if I can’t get it for less than $10 a month. Idgaf about ads, gives my old ass time to go to the bathroom like the old cable days.
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u/CommonStrawbeary 12h ago
Didn't they just announce a price increase, then annouce they're adding ads?? now theyre raising them AGAIN?!?!
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u/Beagleguy26 11h ago
The justification is simple: PEOPLE PAY IT. This is a 100% discretionary income CHOICE. So if you think it's too expensive, cancel. In fact, when people accept the increase and don't cancel, the message you're sending is that the price was too low before, because you're willing to pay more.
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u/WhoAmI9597 12h ago
I get this through Verizon. My bill hasn’t gone up. If they do? Yeah I’d be so mad.
These streaming services need to stop acting like they don’t make money.
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u/Odd_Education_9006 12h ago
I cancelled and they reoffered at $9.99 for 6 months. I’ll cancel when that promo expires.
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u/ExplosiveBrown 12h ago
We were grandfathered in to some like 3$ student rate for years and they took it away. Now they get 0$ instead of 3$ lol
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u/sleeplessinseaatl 8h ago
Stop feeding the greed Cancel and tell them why. We canceled years ago. The content is also shit.
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u/LadyInCrimson 12h ago
I dropped the bundle we had because my husband didn't want to pay for it. I didn't want Disney just Hulu and HBO. We'll you can't bundle just Hulu and HBO you have to bundle with all 3. And if you want Hulu and HBO no ads its more than Disney/Hulu/HBO with ads. But I can't afford all 3 with no ads. Disney has literally forced all the bundles to include their bullshit.
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u/PatacusX 12h ago
They always phrase it as "updates" or "changes" to your plan, rather than just being straightforward and saying "we're raising our prices"
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u/NDeceptikonn 11h ago
Disney quoted “we raised prices because we need to make money.” You make a crap ton of money you greedy corporate scum bags.
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u/nationunderfraud1 9h ago
My wife every years buys around thanksgiving then gets a deal for like 2$ a month
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u/Not_Allowed_to_Die 12h ago
Cancel it like the rest of us did. If you help to set the example of we are not willing to pay it, they will bring it back down. But, as long as people pay it, they will keep raising it.
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u/N00bT4ader 10h ago
lol, ended streaming services long ago and never looked back
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u/jarhead3088 11h ago
I have Hulu "live" with Disney and espn..going up to 99 bucks.
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u/JROCC_CA 11h ago
Alright I think you should be the one to cancel lol. That’s way too high in price.
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u/jarhead3088 11h ago
I want to move on from Hulu live soooo bad..but I like some network TV so I I dont know what to do.
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u/Pure_Blue_0407 10h ago
We left Hulu over a year ago for YouTube tv. Ten times better.
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u/KimJungUnCool 12h ago
Cancel and sail the high seas. These streaming services are on a speed run to closure.
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u/decemberwren 10h ago
I don’t even understand because all the Hulu content is on Disney+. So why am I paying for a “bundle” when one part of the bundle actually has 2 parts?
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u/Alarmed-Gain6847 12h ago
CANCEL! They’ll come back in a month with a $4.99/month for a year deal. That’s what I’m on rn. When it’s up I plan to cancel again 😉
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u/Maximum_Employer5580 12h ago
must mean they gave some executives a pay raise so they have to jack up prices to cover it
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u/Exhausted-CNA 12h ago edited 12h ago
I have Hulu w ads and now it's going up in price again..I'll be canceling as it's getting out of hand now.
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u/DoesntMatterEh 12h ago
Didn't they just raise prices, as well as remove all ad free options? Like two months ago?
They are literally speed running seeing how far they can push their customer base before they push back.
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u/indomike14 12h ago
If you share the cost with friends and family it's less expensive... allegedly.
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u/OtherUserCharges 12h ago
I don’t have any email saying there was a new price increase.
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u/onestarv2 10h ago
It's insane so many of us accepted a half dozen tv subscriptions in our lives. If you have an absolute must see show and don't wanna sail the high seas, just sub for a month after the season is over and binge it over the month. It's not like the 90's when we got 25 episode seasons. You're getting 6 to 12 episodes tops. That can be knocked out easily in a month with some effort. Then move on
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u/Mysterious-World6152 9h ago
In the UK, you don’t pay for Hulu separately because it is completely included as a brand hub inside your standard Disney+ subscription which I pay £7.99 which is about $10
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u/M4rshmall0wMan 5h ago
Launch price was $7 with no ads.
Now it’s $21.50 for no ads.
A tripling in price for the same service. That’s absurd.
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u/FallingDiscontent 11h ago
JFC people stop using streaming services if you're just going to complain about being milked. This is like the TCG people who just HAVE to buy the next Pokemon expansion. Move on and find a more sustainable form of entertainment. May I suggest the library where about half of the source material for movies and shows comes from. We don't have to be a heteronomous species addicted to screens. Creature comforts are fine and everything but learn to have some control and know how to pivot when you start to get priced out.
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u/paintedwoodpile 12h ago
I am dropping Disney, Hulu and Paramount. They don't get watched enough to keep spending more on them for just one or two shows.
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u/_AmenMyBrother_ 3h ago
I cancelled all my streaming services last year. Thought i would care or miss them And add it back. I barely thought about it or even noticed. It was way easier than i thought. I had netflix, apple, disney, espn+, hulu, and hbomax. I have paramount still through a 2 year free walmart+ but i havent rven tolurned that on
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u/AlpineRavenNE 12h ago
I dropped them when they said they were going to host AI user generated content. They’re terrible and there is hardly any good content on their platform except legacy IP
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u/engineerdrummer 12h ago
I canceled mine this month. They put ads on it and went up on the price. Fuck them
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u/im_wudini 11h ago
Why does this surprise anyone this time of year? It's Disney's annual least magical time of the year, the end of their fiscal one. All prices go up. You should all be used to this by now.
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u/xChoke1x 11h ago
The get what the market will bare. We keep paying it, they keep upping it.
Nobody ever drops this shit. We just bitch about it. Look at the data, they do this shit and people just keep paying it.
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u/SweatUnderMahTits 5h ago
"Title must be an accurate and concise description of the picture."
This sub is just a karma farm now.
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u/Dysmorphix 12h ago
When they announced there could be ads, I promised myself I would cancel the moment I saw the first ad. Then I saw an increase in price, so I immediately cancelled.
Getting less and paying more for it. Fuck the mouse.